30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.


In Context

27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Wherefore ye are witnesses to yourselves, that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:30 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.